CVE-2021-40083

Summary

CVECVE-2021-40083
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-25 01:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-08-30 19:29:00 UTC
DescriptionKnot Resolver before 5.3.2 is prone to an assertion failure, triggerable by a remote attacker in an edge case (NSEC3 with too many iterations used for a positive wildcard proof).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-617

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nic Knot Resolver All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
validator: avoid assertion in an edge-case (!1169) · Merge requests · Knot projects / Knot Resolver · GitLab MISC gitlab.nic.cz
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180840 Debian Security Update for knot-resolver (CVE-2021-40083)
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